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In this e book, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C. K. Williams pieces aside the mass of biography and literary criticism that has accumulated around the task and person of Walt Whitman, and endeavors to go back to Leaves of Grass as he first came across it, to explore why Whitman's epic "is constantly on the encourage and sometimes daunt" him. The effect is a personal reassessment and gratitude of one get better at poet by another, as well as an unconventional and fantastic introduction - or reintroduction - to Whitman. In brief, thematic chapters with many quotations from Leaves of Grass, Williams explores the enhancements, originality, and sheer genius of the poetry that has become, as he sets it, "the unconscious" of a lot of the poetry of America and the entire world. Williams pays particular attention to the music of Whitman's poetry, its blazing understanding and enormous real human sympathy, its influencing anecdotes, and its vast cast of individuals, as well as to the radical dynamics of Whitman's first-person loudspeaker, his liberating frame of mind toward love-making, and his unconventional ideas about loss of life. While conveying the singularities of Whitman's work, Williams also shows what Whitman possessed in common with other great poets of his time, such as Baudelaire, and the powerful impact Whitman possessed on later poets such as Eliot and Pound. Amazingly written and wealthy with insight, this is a e book that refreshes our potential to see Whitman in every his power.
